Beauty is in all of us
(by hello my name is spin)
“We waste our precious moments and energy by hating, envying, judging, comparing, gossiping, criticizing, cursing, etc. We have no idea what their journey is all about. Forgive and love.”
— Satish Kaku
Jane’s 250km Sahara Foot Race Against Poverty
It’s really lovely to hear stories like Jane who is willing to do something within her means to help the society or rather the charity. If you have noticed, or if your friends care enough to “like” it… there’s this FaceBook page of hers — ”Jane’s 250km Sahara Foot Race Against Poverty“.
(Information stated below is quoted from http://desertrace.weebly.com/the-race–runner.html)
About the Sahara Race:
The 250 km (155 miles) foot race across the Sahara Desert is part of a series of self-supported races organised by RacingThePlanet.
An endurance race in every sense of the world, competitors will navigate the sand dunes and plains of the Sahara in Egypt while carrying all that they need on their backs. This includes 7 days of food supply, sleeping bag, clothes, and your garden variety of survival tools.
Who is Jane?
- Jane
[...] Jane has a long-standing commitment to humanitarian causes. She raised funds for breast cancer research as part of her Nile River cycling expedition. She has also built brick houses in Nicaragua for underprivileged communities. While serving on the Board of Bridges to Community, an NGO, she spearheaded initiatives that helped to raise over US$4,000 in two weeks. For her Sahara Race, she plans to fund raise for World Vision’s ongoing humanitarian mission to eliminate poverty.
Jane had never run more than 10km until February 2010 but has since made some good progress in training and has completed an 84km (52 miles) ultra marathon. As part of this year’s Sahara race, Jane’s goal is to help raise US$40,000 for World Vision’s microfinance subsidiary, VisionFund. To find out more about their work and impact, click here.
For more on her most recent Trip of a Lifetime, please check out the Antarctica blog here.
The mission is to complete the 250 km (155 miles) foot race across the Sahara desert in Egypt in October 2010 and raise funds for VisionFund, World Vision’s microfinance subsidiary that provides micro-credit loans to the poor in 42 countries around the world.
VisionFund is premised on the idea of “teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime”. Its purpose is to:
- provide micro loans of $50 to $500 to families
- help develop necessary business skills
- provide material resources to help families develop their own business within their communities and become self-reliant.
The key is to help shift families and communities out of the poverty cycle by providing loans at reasonable interest rates to families who would otherwise have found it difficult or near impossible to obtain financing.
For more information, visit VisionFund’s website
The rule of the land was thus “if you want something, you have to earn it yourself.”
Her amazing attitude towards humanitarian activities really triumphs my heart. Not everyone is willing to serve as a part of the community like that, and very few would even care about what is going on. Despite that, her positive attitude is like – ”One could write an essay on why the Sahara race makes sense but it ultimately boils down to the central question: why not?”
Admirable woman, admirable courage and admirable actions. *salutes*
Nothing is going to be done without any action.
Interested to donate or check out what’s happening? Check out her official website for the run at http://desertrace.weebly.com/ or like “Jane’s 250km Sahara Foot Race Against Poverty” on FaceBook.*
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There’s only 2 choices in life
“There’s only 2 choices in my life, one is to die and another is to live as brilliantly as I could.” – Liu Wei (Armless Pianist)
Everyone has a choice, but not everyone can make a decision. This guy here, Liu Wei, is one of those inspirational people that truly deserves our admiration. Despite his lost of 2 arms in an electrical accident and can only rely on his both legs for survival (eg. eat, dress up, play piano), he strives to become one of the best music producers and went ahead to a Chinese Talent Show in China to showcase his superb piano skills.
And I love how one of the judges there rounded up the story:
“I think including me and everyone here, when we are watching him (Liu Wei), when we are listening to his music, the complaints in our lives shouldn’t be there any more. I think we should all be like him, living so wonderfully.”
LEAP!
My very first inspirational book that I have read – LEAP! by Jonathan Creaghan.
An interesting inspirational book. I used to think that these “inspirational books” are those kind of crappy books about how people succeed by doing whatsoever “right”. To be very honest, I am quite turned off by the idea, especially that I believe that they are actually brainwashing people. Well, but you can’t judge a book by its cover (literally).
Due to my recent interest in business, a friend of mine introduced me to this book. What I was told to be in a successful business and a good leader, I must change myself for the better. Honestly, I was skeptical about how books will change oneself because I have always been confident in being myself as I am and I believed that changes will happen in any stages of life as long as you are willing to think and communicate with yourself. Neither did I know that this book can impress me that much.
This book, not a usual one, is an observation made by Jonathan Creaghan that is further explained through a narrative story. Extremely intriguing! Why?
Can you imagine yourself planning a traveling journey but get lost in a country named “Nowhere” and all you can go is to “The State of Can’t”. What would you do? Stay in the so-called peaceful “Can’t” and be restricted to actions that you can’t do? You can’t run, you can’t walk, you can’t stand, you can’t sit. I can’t sleep, I can’t work, I can’t eat, I can’t walk on the grass.
Would you be pleased to meet the “rebels of the Can’t”, a group of people who is sick of the “Can’t brothers” (the ones who control the state) and hoping to break through to “Somewhere else”. Follow the rebels or continue to live in your comfort zone by restricting yourself?
When you are finally able to break through to “Somewhere else”, what do you need? Experiences, memories, support and et cetera. Most importantly, it’s a “I CAN DO IT” and “EFFORT”. Words without actions are simply nothing but crap. Don’t think, just do it. However, only a minority can succeed in it by their perseverance and effort in “Change”. Don’t be afraid of being different, it just simply means that you can be successful and not be an average person.
Recommended book! A Journey to Personal Power And Possibility, LEAP! by Jonathan Creaghan.
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